NiTRO Articles

UK organisations the Cultural Learning Alliance and NESTA have added to the STEM to STEAM debate with a briefing paper entitled ‘STEAM:Why STEM can only take us so far’ that argues for a cross disciplinary approach to education to meet the demands of industry and sustainability for future employment.

"All the statistics show that the creative economy. . . is one of the fastest growing parts of the UK workforce. Consistent with this, we know that businesses that combine art and science skills – a hallmark of creativity – show higher sales growth. This has an important implication for policy: namely, it must not disincentivise young people from pursuing a broad-based education."